Luke_Groundrunner Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 The start up of a new a new professional women's hockey league was announced today. The NWHL (National Women's Hockey League) will begin play next fall, and will be comprisede of 4 teams, New York Riveters, Connecticut Whale, Boston Pride, and the Buffalo Beauts.Yahoo Sports articleThe league logoteam logosWhose got some good female oriented team name ideas for this league?Calgary Cougars or Cowgrils?Vancouver Vixens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanB06 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Two NHL logo ripoffs out of the first four. Not encouraging. Sodboy13 said: As you watch more basketball, you will learn to appreciate the difference between "defense" and "couldn't find the rim with a pair of bloodhounds and a Garmin." meet the new page, not the same as the old page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CS85 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Great idea for a league. Awful, awful designs. Quote "You are nothing more than a small cancer on this message board. You are not entertaining, you are a complete joke." twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke_Groundrunner Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 Two NHL logo ripoffs out of the first four. Not encouraging.Not to mention the NHL font in the league's logo.But, FWIW some rumors indicate that the NHL is somewhat involved with the new league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke_Groundrunner Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 Great idea for a league. Awful, awful designs.Hope that these are just temporary introductory logos, and that better/improved ones will be unveiled later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshMcC1982 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Connecticut Whale??? OMG so many jokes could be made here. So many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apeman33 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Those logos all suck. And the Connecticut Whale is a recycled name. The Hartford Wolf Pack used that for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seattlesonicsofsacramento Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Connecticut Whale??? OMG so many jokes could be made here. So many.Exactly. Why the :censored: would you name a women's sports team this? "The pictures looked good on the computer," Will Brown explained Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScubaSteve Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Two NHL logo ripoffs out of the first four. Not encouraging.I would go as far as to say all 4 do. New York and Connecticut are obvious, but the other two have similarities to their counterparts too. Boston's colors, arching script are Bruins-esque. And Buffalo's reminds me a bit of the front of this jersey: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smzimbabwe Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 At least they got permission on at least one logo rip off -"Yes, you’re reading that correctly, the Connecticut Whale. Rylan secured the blessing of the Howard Baldwin Jr., head of the Baldwin Sports and Entertainment Group, to use the name and a similar logo to the Hartford Whalers of yore"I wonder if this is enough to convince Noora Raty to leave the men's league in Finland she's playing in and come over and try this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Two NHL logo ripoffs out of the first four. Not encouraging.I would go as far as to say all 4 do. New York and Connecticut are obvious, but the other two have similarities to their counterparts too. Boston's colors, arching script are Bruins-esque. And Buffalo's reminds me a bit of the front of this jersey: That idea predates the Sabres, so I don't think you can really "steal" it unless you directly copy their script.I guess Buffalo has the best logo? So that's cool? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigboy1083 Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 At least they got permission on at least one logo rip off -"Yes, you’re reading that correctly, the Connecticut Whale. Rylan secured the blessing of the Howard Baldwin Jr., head of the Baldwin Sports and Entertainment Group, to use the name and a similar logo to the Hartford Whalers of yore"I wonder if this is enough to convince Noora Raty to leave the men's league in Finland she's playing in and come over and try this...Does he even own the rights to the Whalers? He wasn't allowed to call the Wolf Pack the Whalers, and that's why we ended up with the CT Whale.Two NHL logo ripoffs out of the first four. Not encouraging.Not to mention the NHL font in the league's logo.But, FWIW some rumors indicate that the NHL is somewhat involved with the new league.Really? I thought Chris tweeted that the NHL was going to start their own league called the WNHL. Thanks KaTo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigboy1083 Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 The Riveters have already changed their logo and the Whale are using the CT Whale logo the Wolf Pack used a few years ago.http://nwhl.co/teams/ Thanks KaTo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Giant Pacific Octopus Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Beauts and Pride are some of the stupidest names ever, and those "logos" look like someone wrote them up in 2.3 seconds.And no more of the "whale" crap. Call the friggin team the WHALES. PLURAL!! The Catch of the Day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SG30 Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 There's some credibility to a rumor that Buffalo might switch to go with "Valkyries" for a nickname.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValkyrieIn Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to the goddess Freyja's afterlife field Fólkvangr), the valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain, Valhalla, ruled over by the god Odin.Having studied the Poetic Edda in college a bit, this would be a really, really cool nickname. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_J_H Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 There's some credibility to a rumor that Buffalo might switch to go with "Valkyries" for a nickname.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValkyrieIn Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to the goddess Freyja's afterlife field Fólkvangr), the valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain, Valhalla, ruled over by the god Odin.Having studied the Poetic Edda in college a bit, this would be a really, really cool nickname. Hope so because to me the "Buffalo Beauts" sounds like a name you hear from the Lingerie Football League. AJH Hockey Jersey Art@AJHFTW AJH Hockey Jersey Art on Facebook AJH HJA on DeviantArt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVIXX Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Please, let this be a joke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke_Groundrunner Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 I'm going to guess that the New York Riveters uniforms are going to be exactly the same as the Rangers just with Riveters diagonally across the front of the jersey. Predictable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleveland Fan Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Is this the National Women's Hockey League or the National Trademark Infringement League? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sodboy13 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Mercifully, the Connecticut Whale have dropped Baldwin's atrocious AHL logo, and are now using something that looks like the old Federal Baseball League's Chicago Whales: On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said: For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA. PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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